Wisrah Villefort
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Wisrah Villefort produces videos, installations and sculptures with a reflection on notions of the non-human, the increased presence of new digital technologies in our daily life, the use of synthetics polymers, prostheses and their markets. His work refers to current neo-materialist theories which confer existence to things with the idea that the relationship between man and objects - when their sensory materiality is recognized - can lead to productive alliances. It was Walter Benjamin who, very early on, claimed that the language of things is a "productive language" in the sense that it contains traces of origins and of God. The idea for him is that human language must be able to translate the meaning not by a ‘translation’ in the classical sense of the term but by a transfer, a transmission.
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Wisrah Villefort produces videos, installations and sculptures with a reflection on notions of the non-human, the increased presence of new digital technologies in our daily life, the use of synthetics polymers, prostheses and their markets. His work refers to current neo-materialist theories which confer existence to things with the idea that the relationship between man and objects – when their sensory materiality is recognized – can lead to productive alliances. It was Walter Benjamin who, very early on, claimed that the language of things is a “productive language” in the sense that it contains traces of origins and of God. The idea for him is that human language must be able to translate the meaning not by a ‘translation’ in the classical sense of the term but by a transfer, a transmission.